Lanvin may not be thriving under its new creative direction, but Mulberry is. The British luxury brand reported a 21 percent rise in annual profit, thanks largely to recently-released products and increased online sales – all under the watch of new creative director Johnny Coca. According to Reuters, “The company, best known for its leather handbags, said on Wednesday that it made a pretax profit of 7.5 million pounds ($9.6 million) in the year to March 31, up from 6.2 million pounds in 2015, on revenue up 8 percent to 168.1 million pounds.”

Instagram plans to introduce a feature this week that will make it easier to label posts as paid promotions, taking what it called “a step toward transparency” in an area that has drawn attention from U.S. authorities. Product endorsements have become more common on Instagram, owned by Facebook, as celebrities and others with large followings on the social network have struck lucrative deals to endorse products - often without disclosing the commercial nature of such posts.

The lawsuit that Gucci filed against Beyond the Rack is not going away, even if the Montreal-based flash sale site recently filed for bankruptcy. You may recall that Gucci filed an ugly multi-million dollar lawsuit against Beyond the Rack in February 2016, alleging that it was selling counterfeit Gucci bags.

In light of all of the many recent reports to the tune of "Millennials Killed J. Crew" or the various iterations thereof, it is worth looking back at an article from December 2016, which shed light on what it was that J. Crew was actually doing wrong ... because, at the end of the day, it was not consumers that killed J. Crew. It was J. Crew - and its rising prices, worsening fits, and overuse of Jenna Lyons-approved sequins - that killed J. Crew.

Last week, Net-a-Porter, one of the largest online designer fashion retailers, announced that it is going fur-free. Its e-commerce site, as well as the other sites under the Yoox Net-a-Porter (“YNAP”) umbrella, including menswear site Mr. Porter, Yoox and The Outnet, have been scrubbed of all things fur, leaving a seeming void, with only shearling and faux fur options in its place.

Condé Nast has shuttered its fashion news site-turned-e-commerce venture Style.com. According to the New York Times, "The company said in a statement on Tuesday that Style.com, a global multibrand e-commerce site in which it had reportedly invested more than $100 million, had ceased all trading operations. Effective immediately, visitors to that website will be redirected to that of its new partner, Farfetch, a rapidly growing online marketplace for high-end boutiques in which Condé Nast was an early investor."

The company behind ABC's "Bachelor in Paradise" has suspended production of the reality show and sent its contestants home while producers look into allegations of misconduct on the set in Mexico. While Warner Bros. says it is "conducting a thorough investigation of these allegations" and "appropriate responsive action" will be taken once the investigation is complete, it did not offer any details on the allegations.

Neiman Marcus, which has been exploring strategic options including a sale, reported its fourth straight quarterly loss on Tuesday, as it continues to struggle in the face of intense competition from similarly situated online retailers, fast fashion brands like Zara, H&M and Mango.

Victoria’s Secret has settled a multi-million dollar class-action suit in federal court in California, agreeing to pay $12 million to avoid trial. The suit, which was filed in a California court in August 2014 by Mayra Casas and Julio Fernandez on behalf of themselves and a class of current and former Victoria’s Secret employees, alleged that the Ohio-based lingerie giant failed to adequately pay store clerks as a result of its policy of “call-in” shifts.